To be honest I think you have to differentiate - the 70 series I am talking about here. There have been a lot of very different 70 series vehicles over the years. And they are not all perfect... The current 1HZ engined 78 and 79 have quite weak gearboxes (from the Prado) for some stupid reason. We had a (okay, much abused) 79 g/box fail two weeks ago. Car has only done abt 50,000kms (although VERY loaded). Okay I can't think of many other issues... But all in all your article is pretty much spot on!
Gil
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